Vintage Roma No.480 Double LeatherHanging Razor Strop

This is a very good vintage english-made strop by Roma, model number 480.  It is made from good quality shell horse-hide about 3mm thick.  It has been fully refurbished.  The horse-hide is very supple and shows no signs of drying or wrinkiling or creasing.  The finishing side is in extremely good condition - just some very light marks. 

The other side is leather that has been specially treated with a sharpening carborundum compound, proprietary to Roma.  It has "sharpen" embossed into the leather on this side.  It has some very light marks but overall is in extremely good condition.

The handle of the strop was badly damaged when I got it, so I have fitted it with a new leather handle, cut to the original Roma pattern and stuffed and stitched just like the Roma handles.  The metal hardware shows some light tarnish - see photos.  The top fitting is a hook with a swivel base, which lets you simply flip the strop over from one side to the other without having to unhook it.

The strop is a good length - from the tip of the hanging gear to the bottom of the handle it measures approx. 25 inches long with a good 14.75 inches of stropping length and it is 2.25" inches wide.

This is a heavy strop - the packaged weight will be around 850gms.